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catch23on Bank robber demands $1 from teller in order to get free healthcare in prison

We do spend more on healthcare than any other country, it's just that we also have more lawsuits than any other country -- it's what keeps costs high unfortunately. If we weren't allowed to sue doctors, we could probably have cheaper healthcare.

My grandmother died due to improper surgery procedures in canada but we couldn't bring a suit against the doctor. I'm sure if she died in the USA under the same circumstances, we would be able to successfully sue the hospital for negligence.

catch23on Bank robber demands $1 from teller in order to get free healthcare in prison

well nobody says we have to go 2x in debt to pay for healthcare, we just have to stop spending cash on nation building and we'll have enough for ourselves. Of course this probably means less money "defending the border" and keeping the country safe from terrorists, but at least we'll be able to feed ourselves.

catch23on MtGox account database leaked

According to: http://php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php

CRYPT_MD5 - MD5 hashing with a twelve character salt starting with $1$

So the hashes you see beginning with $1$ are probably salted.

catch23on JSON users: Avoid CSRFs by not using top-level arrays

One elegant solution mentioned at a DNSSEC talk was to simply include your crsf token in the header of all get/post requests and have the server reject anything without said token. Assuming you'd be using some js library to do your ajax, you could make that modification in there so that you'd transparently use it without needing to modify any existing code. Only the urls that send html will not need the crsf header token.

catch23on Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

It was a success last time it was done. Maybe you can convince NYC Resistor to host their own.

catch23on Try to digest the Groupon story

sounds like you're just a hater.

catch23on Duke Nukem Forever: barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive

The legendary Carmack has been working on a game called "Rage" for the past 6 years. Six years ago, iphones & androids didn't exist. Game developers do it because they enjoy it, even if the hard-core-games tend to make less dough than games like angry birds or guitar hero.

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what other theaters have a restaurant built in?

catch23on Try to digest the Groupon story

Why would that matter? He was asked, and he said yes. These were options paid to him for his involvement on the board, not money invested by him.

If you did some work for someone, and they paid you with stock instead of cash, wouldn't you feel like converting that to cash the first chance you get?

catch23on GitHub: Block the Bullies

You still have to admit that zed went through a lot of trouble just to stop the harassment. I'd probably make a blog post too if the harassment went on for as long as it did for zed.

catch23on This Guy Has My MacBook

Well, you don't need to use your primary email username/password. It only uses this to deliver mail. Just create a new one for the purposes of Prey.

catch23on Going Paper-Free for $220

I have a $250 Fellowes MS-460C shredder that does this well.

Handles 10 sheets in the normal shredder, or spam mail with CDs inside the envelope for the heavy duty shredder. I can throw my junk mail without opening them in the heavy duty shredder entry without worrying about those plastic fake credit cards advertisers sometimes send.

catch23on Robots.txt is a suicide note

How would you know if the robot is autonomous or not? They could just use a typical browser user-agent and you wouldn't know...

catch23on Google I/O 2011 Countdown clock

Google IO contestants had to implement this in a few hours on Android for their last call competition:

https://sites.google.com/site/lastcallforio2011/quickfire-su...

This is how I got my Google IO ticket.

catch23on Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

use a $9 popcorn machine. it's easier and much much faster (takes me 5 minutes).

it does generate lots of smoke, so be sure to do it outside.

catch23on Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

If you live in the bay area, you can probably just drive to sweet maria's. The coffee capital of western hemisphere is supposedly in east bay where all the coffee comes in.

catch23on Eating Healthily for $3 a Day

The taste of coffee is directly proportional to the length of time sitting on the shelf after roasting. Even the worst-grade green beans taste great after a fresh roast. I roast my beans in a $9 popcorn machine I bought at Walgreens.

catch23on Why are you not using a SSD yet?

Try doing a fgrep in 500 files. It's almost 20 times faster than my hard disk. I think it's funny how all these people spend money on a faster cpu when they could really just use a faster disk.

catch23on Why are you not using a SSD yet?

Actually it's around $200 for a 100gig drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227...

But you can always have more than 1 hard drive. Buy a 500gig one for all your large file content and use the smaller one for the OS. Pretty much all SSDs come in laptop drive format so I don't know where this $800 number is coming from. They might have been $800 last year, but transistor prices drop pretty fast.

I have 2 drives in my macbook pro -- 120gig vertex 2 ssd, and a 500gig samsung "old style" hard drive.

catch23on Node-http-proxy hits 0.5.0

This is a nice library, but I don't think it's newsworthy enough to be listed on HN. I hope we don't see another listing when the library hits version 0.5.1.

catch23on Bridge.me meetings that call you

Why would it matter if it used twilio? You could do this idea just quickly without it...

catch23on Greplin’s Chrome Extension Now Makes Gmail Search Infinitely Better

Maybe it would be okay to use Greplin for company mail stuff where technically the company already owns all of your emails anyway -- of course they'd have to deploy Greplin company wide though.

catch23on Twitter Tweets Some Big Q1 Stats; 155 Million Tweets A Day Now

that number is probably averaged out. I bet it's probably more like 100,000 a second around peak hours and 500 a second in non-peak.

catch23on Node.js 0.4.5 Released w/ many bug fixes

We use Tim's nvm here.

https://github.com/creationix/nvm

Similar to Ruby's rvm.

catch23on AIDS vaccine in final testing

I'm guessing he wasn't sick in the USA, since you actually need to be rich to pay for specialized healthcare here.

catch23on Is This The Greatest VC Pitch Prank Ever Pulled?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock

"During its short run, the Pet Rock made Dahl a millionaire.[3] With the proceeds, he opened the ironically named "Carrie Nation's" bar in downtown Los Gatos, California."

catch23on iOS Libraries

Even on platforms where making an http request is still only a few lines of standard library code (ruby, nodejs, python) -- there is still a vast selection of libraries that make it easier for you. (httparty, request, etc)

catch23on IE9 has been released

too bad it doesn't support css3 gradients -- hopefully the IE6 gradient hacks will still work.

catch23on Why Everyone Is Talking About Node

although 3.times is probably harder since all ruby methods take an implicit block as last parameter. The prettiest code you could do in node would be 3.times(function(){/code/})

It would be nice if js could rid of the keyword 'function' -- maybe make it a bit shorter like in coffeescript.

catch23on Techies Get to Work at Hacker Dojo

The Dojo is a little bit more expensive so that we can improve the space for coworkers -- stuff like buying spare monitors, desks, chairs, heating & cooling, etc.

There's no overhead -- 100% of the member's cash goes into rent & improving the space. We have bi-weekly meetings where members can see how their money gets used.